ATDTDA (7): 186-188 decoding

[bekah]

At 8:20 PM -0400 4/16/07, Peter Petto wrote:
>Lew, alongside Neville and Nigel try to figure out "what in hell's 
>going on here," an apt question for the Tarot among some Anasazi 
>ruins near Dolores Valley, Colorado. Lew's not familiar with Tarot.

Anasazi and Tarot!?!?!?   Omg,  what a juxtaposition!   It's so far 
removed from anything I would put into the same frame of reference, 
I missed it!

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>186: Anasazi - ancestors of Pueblo people...native culture from 
>intersection of what is now Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico 
>(the four corners)


The Anasazi were,  as you said,  the ancestors of the Pueblo people 
but the name is simply from archeologists and it means "ancient 
people" (or something like that) in Navajo.    The area  in which the 
ruins predominate is huge,  probably the size of one of the four 
states only situated across all four.
<http://www.co.blm.gov/canm/canmphotos.htm>   good photos
<http://www.mountainstudies.org/databank/history/Anasazi.htm>


I imagine Lew and the N's sitting near one of the walls like I've 
walked through.  <http://www.co.blm.gov/canm/images/canm23-400.jpg>

I've visited several times and to me it's a really lovely area,  all 
red rock and desolate with beautiful skies and very little vegetation 
(although it's alive underneath).   You drive  @ 90 mph (144.84 kph) 
for hours and hours.   Four Corners is a bit built up now,  a tourist 
attraction but ... 
<http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Four_Corners_Monument_Photos.htm> 
(there are remate - swap meet type - booths behind the camera there) 
(My late hubby and I drove through the area in 1989 or so,  reading 
Galapagos to each other.)

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>Stonehenge - Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England: circular 
>standing stones are suggestive of gallows

<http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc/anasazi.htm#astronomy> Anasazi astrologers
<http://www.chimneyrockco.org/> Moonrise

>Perseid meteor shower - aka the tears of St. Lawrence

This one is about 400 miles away in northern Colorado,  but a Perseid 
shower may have been seen by the Anasazis
<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?our+moon>
and scroll down to  - 2000 August 21 - A Perseid Aurora

But! (scroll down to)  November 22, 1998 - the High Crab Nebula was 
probably  seen by the Anasazi astronomers.
"This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula 
is so energetic that it glows in every kind of light known. Shown 
above are images of the Crab Nebula from visible light to the X-ray 
band. NUV stands for "near ultraviolet" light, FUV means "far 
ultraviolet" light, and VIS means visible light. In the center of the 
Crab Nebula lies the powerful Crab pulsar - a spinning neutron star 
with mass comparable to our Sun but with the diameter of only a small 
town. The pulsar expels particles and radiation in a beam that sweeps 
past the Earth 30 times a second. The supernova that created the Crab 
Nebula was seen by ancient Chinese astronomers and possibly even the 
Anasazi Indians -- in 1054 AD, perhaps glowing for a week as bright 
as the full moon. The Crab still presents mysteries today as the 
total mass of the nebula and pulsar appears much less than the mass 
of the original pre-supernova star!"


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